Adhya Shrinking Cities and First Suburbs

The Case of Detroit and Warren, Michigan
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-51709-4
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 101 Seiten

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

This book examines Warren, a suburb of Detroit, Michigan, as a shrinking city facing a crisis of economic downturn, automotive restructuring, high unemployment, and real estate foreclosures. The author explores Warren's attempt to develop planning strategies, culturally-based initiatives, community design projects, and creative partnerships in the region in order to address the challenges of shrinkage and foreclosures at multiple scales. Global urban development is currently characterized by varied combination of metropolitan growth and urban core shrinkage. While much of the shrinkage is concentrated in central cities, first suburbs are now facing the same problem. The Warren case illustrates opportunities for flexible policies combining rightsizing, shared maintenance, and incremental development in struggling first suburban communities, which are less studied and often ignored. 


Anirban Adhya is Associate Professor at the College of Architecture and Design, Lawrence Technological University, USA. 

Autoren/Hrsg.

Adhya, Anirban

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Shrinking Cities and First Suburbs;3
1.1;Preface;6
1.2;Acknowledgment;9
1.3;Contents;11
1.4;List of Abbreviations and Acronyms;12
1.5;List of Figures;13
1.6;List of Tables;15
2;1 Introduction: The Shrinking City Phenomenon;16
2.1;Growth and Urban Development;16
2.2;Shrinking Cities: Definition and Formulation of a Phenomenon;18
2.3;Challenges of Shrinking Cities;18
2.4;Global Forces, Regional Dynamics, and Local Questions;19
2.5;Relevance of Shrinking Cities;20
2.6;Shrinkage at the Periphery: A New Crisis;21
2.7;Evolution of Urban Edges and First Suburbs;22
3;2 Detroit Metropolitan Area and Warren;26
3.1;Everyday Life in Warren;26
3.2;Dynamic Urban Condition;27
3.3;Behind the Scenes;31
4;3 The Shrinking Context of Warren;33
4.1;Changing Phases of Warren;33
4.2;Origins of Warren as a Small Settlement Town;34
4.3;City of Progress;35
4.4;From Boomtown to a Shrinking Suburb;37
4.5;Rethinking Current Efforts in Warren;38
4.6;Future as City of Projects;39
4.7;Into the Twenty-First Century and Beyond;40
5;4 Warren as a Case Study;42
5.1;Case Study as a Research Design;42
5.2;Warren as an Example of a First Suburb;44
5.3;An Empirical Approach;45
5.4;Multiple Data Sources;46
5.4.1;City of Warren DDA Development Plan and TIF Plan;46
5.4.2;Macomb County Planning and Economic Development;48
5.4.3;Detroit Non-Motorized Transportation;48
6;5 First Suburbs and Challenges of Shrinkage in Warren;50
6.1;Understanding First Suburbs;50
6.1.1;First Suburbs;51
6.2;Specific Challenges in Warren, a Midwest First Suburb;51
6.2.1;Declining Housing and Infrastructure;53
6.2.2;New Suburban Demographics;57
6.2.3;Labor-Market Restructuring;58
6.2.4;Metropolitan Fragmentation;60
6.3;From Crisis to Projects;61
7;6 Current Efforts in Warren;63
7.1;Small Steps with Limited Resources;63
7.2;Neighborhood Stabilization Program;64
7.3;Cultural Initiatives;66
7.4;Project-Based Initiatives;68
7.5;Informal Collaborations and Creative Partnerships;69
8;7 Conclusion: Lessons from Warren;76
8.1;Challenges and Opportunities;76
8.2;Intended Implications;77
8.3;A Two-Way Approach;82
8.3.1;Strategic Regionalism;83
8.3.2;Everyday Urbanism;84
8.4;Toward a Harmonious and Humanizing City-Region;85
8.5;Implications for Spatial Planning;86
8.6;Implications for Policy Formulation;87
9;Bibliography;92
10;Index;96